Research Catalog

Title

Counterinsurgency intelligence and the emergency in Malaya / Roger C. Arditti.

Author

Arditti, Roger C.

Publication

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

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Description

xxvii, 254 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

This book examines the full range of counterinsurgency intelligence during the Malayan Emergency. It explores the involvement of the Security Service, the Joint Intelligence Committee (Far East), the Malayan Security Service, Special Branch and wider police service, and military intelligence, to examine how British and Malayan authorities tackled the insurgent challenge posed by the Malayan Communist Party. This study assesses the nature of the intelligence apparatus prior to the declaration of emergency in 1948 and considers how officials attempted to reconstruct the intelligence structures in the Far East after the surrender of the Japanese in 1945. These plans were largely based upon the legacy of the Second World War but quickly ran into difficultly because of ill-defined remits and personality clashes. Nevertheless, officials did provide prescient warning of the existential threat posed by the Malayan Communist Party from the earliest days of British reoccupation of Malaya. Once a state of emergency had been declared, officials struggled to find the right combination of methods, strategy and management structures to eliminate the threat posed by the Communist insurgents. This book argues that the development of an effective counterinsurgency intelligence strategy involved many more organisations than just Special Branch. It was a multifaceted, dynamic effort that took far longer and was more problematic than previous accounts suggest. The Emergency remains central to counterinsurgency theory and thus this wide-ranging analysis sheds crucial light not only on the period, but on contemporary doctrine and security practices today.

Series Statement

Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world

Uniform Title

Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world.

Subject

• Malayan Emergency (Malaya : 1948-1960)
• 1948-1960
• Counterinsurgency > Malaysia > Malaya
• Counterinsurgency
• Malaya > History > Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
• Malaya

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFD 19-5469

ISBN

• 3030166945
• 9783030166946

OCLC

1089229711

Author

Arditti, Roger C., author.

Title

Counterinsurgency intelligence and the emergency in Malaya / Roger C. Arditti.

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world

Security, conflict and cooperation in the contemporary world.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1948-1960

Other Form:

Electronic version: Counterinsurgency intellignece and the emergency in Malaya. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019] 9783030166953 (OCoLC)1099675424

Research Call Number

JFD 19-5469